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PixVerse Hits Unicorn Status as China's AI Video Race Heats Up
The Alibaba-backed startup raised $300 million at a billion-dollar valuation, claiming its models can cut enterprise video costs by 68 percent.
Netflix Buys Ben Affleck's Stealth AI Startup
The streaming giant acquired InterPositive, a filmmaker-focused AI company Affleck quietly built since 2022, breaking from its tradition of building technology in-house.
Television Academy Bets Production's Future on AI Tools That Actually Work
The industry's most influential gatekeepers are teaching Hollywood how to use AI for the boring parts of production, and that might be exactly what creators need.
Trump blocks Anthropic from federal contracts over AI safety rules
The administration designated the AI company a supply-chain risk after it refused to remove restrictions on autonomous weapons and mass surveillance.
X Demonetizes Creators Over Unlabeled AI War Videos
The platform will suspend revenue sharing for 90 days if creators post synthetic conflict footage without disclosure, as AI-generated war videos flood timelines during US-Israel-Iran tensions.
Anthropic Refuses to Build Autonomous Weapons as Pentagon Deadline Looms
The AI company refuses military demands to remove safety guardrails, risking a $200 million contract and potential blacklisting.
Amazon's AI Content Marketplace Tests Publisher Desperation
The company positions itself as broker between media companies and AI developers in an increasingly fraught copyright economy.
Darren Aronofsky releases his second AI Film
The Oscar-nominated director's three-film project with Google's video AI reveals both promise and pitfalls as the second release faces backlash.
Publishers Crash Google's AI Trial as Disney Escalates Video Copyright War
Cengage and Hachette seek to join class action against Google's Gemini AI while entertainment giants mount parallel attacks on video generation tools
Foundry Buys Griptape to Wire AI Into VFX Pipelines
The VFX software giant acquired the enterprise orchestration platform to give studios control over multiple AI models within existing production workflows.
ByteDance Scrambles to Lock Down AI Video Tool After Hollywood Revolt
Following legal threats from Disney and major studios, the TikTok parent company pledges stricter safeguards on Seedance 2.0 after the model generated unauthorized clips of Tom Cruise and other stars.
OpenAI Exodus: Senior Staff Leave as Company Shifts Hard to ChatGPT
Multiple departures from video and image teams reveal tensions as the $500 billion company abandons experimental research for immediate commercial gains.